Soon Wook Kwon from Korea My favorite place when I was young was my home. There was a huge yard (Yes, yards were huge at that time, unlike today.) There were many trees and flowers, and some of the trees were very big and tall. Near my house, no other house had so many big trees as my house. My family raised a dog. Whenever the dog had puppies, my parents usually gave the puppies to people in the neighborhoods. I usually played hide and seek with the dog. My house was in the center of the yard, so if I ran fast and turned the corner quickly, the dog couldn't see me. When I ran, the dog followed me, but she usually went the wrong way. There was a veranda, and on the other side of it, there were no stairs, so the dog couldn't follow me anymore. The dog had to stop running, and I stopped, too. I would stare at the dog for a while and then begin to run again. Then she went back to the stairs and started again, trying to catch me. But before she found me, I hid at the top of the house. Then she would look around to see where I was. I had a lot of fun making her confused. There was another thing I liked to do. There was a sand box in the yard where I liked to play with toy cars like dump trucks. I would watch a colony of ants moving in the sand or a spider building his new spider web in the early morning, and sometilmes I watched a spider catch a bug and roll it into its web. I lived there until I was 15 years old. I still remember that house now. It was like an amusement park, and it was a natural science learning place. I really liked the house. Maybe one day, I will buy a house like my childhood home.
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